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  • En Foco's Touring Gallery Presents: tracing(s) belonging(s)

    Aguilar Library
    February 1, 2012 (All day) - September 30, 2012 (All day)

    En Foco's Touring Gallery exhibitions feature presentations by emerging photographers in community spaces throughout New York City. 

    Come visit our newest exhibition, tracing(s) belonging(s), featuring the work of Sonia Louise Davis.

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  • Ana C. Traversa: Pictures of Installations, Sculptures and Paintings

    Hamilton Grange Library
    June 1, 2012 (All day) - September 30, 2012 (All day)

    Ana Traversa, Patagonian Artist, Sculptor, Painter and Performer will exhibit old and new works. Ana has worked extensively throughout the five boroughs of New York. In 2002 she was awarded the the Silver Medal of Arts, 

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  • Mercator at 500

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    March 13, 2012 (All day) - September 29, 2012 (All day)

    The year 2012 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), the Flemish geographer, engraver, and maker of scientific instruments, maps, and globes. In celebration of the occasion, The New York Public Library is hosting Mercator at 500, an exhibition of extraordinary 

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  • Recent Abstract Paintings by J.A. Vos

    Grand Central Library
    September 4, 2012 (All day) - September 28, 2012 (All day)

    J.A. Vos's pieces, acrylic paintings on canvass board, epmphasize colors, shapes, and textures.

    Mr. Vos, who started painting at age 82, is a self-taught painter with a background in sculpture. He is the nephew of the late Martin Vos, a well-known and highly acclaimed photographer who is 

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  • NER BECK: A New Photographic Exhibition of Lost & Found New York City Street Art

    St. Agnes Library
    August 1, 2012 (All day) - September 22, 2012 (All day)

    Ner Beck returns to St. Agnes Public Library for an exhibition of all new photographs not shown here before. Besides his fascination with face-finding a new section includes his colorful prism-like photos of reflections on glass windows. As a New York City graphic artist and designer, he has had 

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  • Experiments in Non-Objective Photography- Photos by Hans Weck

    Dongan Hills Library
    June 5, 2012 (All day) - August 31, 2012 (All day)

    Relying on creative impulses with an emphasis on strong graphic design, Hans Weck’s photos concentrate exclusively on form and pattern.  Weck creates his images in an attempt to define beauty in a very abstract way—an intellectual exercise 

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  • Where to?

    Pelham Bay Library
    July 1, 2012 (All day) - August 31, 2012 (All day)

    Book display of traveling books to help give our patrons an idea on where to go for vacation

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  • MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps

    Mulberry Street Library
    July 1, 2012 (All day) - August 31, 2012 (All day)

    MAPnificent features paintings, works on paper and sculpture that reflect the artists’ concerns for the current state of our society, conveyed though charts and diagrams, and their admiration of the map as a symbol of longing and the unknown. Includes works by 

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  • New York's Evolving Waterfronts photographs by Shelley Seccombe

    St. George Library Center
    July 18, 2012 (All day) - August 31, 2012 (All day)

    The Hudson River, New York Harbor, Raritan Bay, Newtown Creek, the Gowanus Canal, the East River, the Hackensack, the Harlem River these waterways and their banks and bridges are the subjects of the photographs on display this summer.
     
     

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  • All Hands on Deck: Remembering the Titanic (1912-2012)

    New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
    March 30, 2012 (All day) - August 31, 2012 (All day)

    On April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic tragically sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. In honor of the 100 years which have passed, All Hands on Deck: Remembering the Titanic (1912-2012), curated by LPA's Music Division, exhibits items from our collections to 

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